Shankaracharya penned the Sanskrit poem: Krishna-ashtak, eight verses describing Krishna in Vrindavan. It makes for delightful singing, with or without instrumental accompaniments. We have here Pandit Jasraj singing the same...More...

At the heart of the Sufi mystical
experience lies the
Zikr
or remembrance
of God. In its musical expression through the
Qawwali, it has become synonymous with
the name of Amir Khusro, whose musical idiom facilitated a unique synthesis of
the Persian and Hindu-Braja cultures. His prodigious literary and musical
experimentation is a unique effort at creating a universal Sufi language of Love
and he forged a new mystical Sufi consciousness. This could have been a
forerunner of the
Nirguna Bhakti
movement. More...